Trump vows to designate Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization

WASHINGTON — On Sunday, President Trump announced his intention to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, citing recent evidence of the group’s radical tactics and its expanding reach in Western societies.

“It will be done in the strongest and most powerful terms,” Trump told Just the News. “Final documents are being drawn.”

The president’s decision follows persistent lobbying from think‑tanks and congressional members.

Earlier last week, Republican Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated both the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American‑Islamic Relations (CAIR) as foreign terrorist organizations within Texas.

A federal designation would aim to sever financial and logistical support to the targeted entities, among other repercussions.

The Muslim Brotherhood, founded in Egypt in 1928, has been linked to several terrorist networks. For instance, Hamas has described itself as “one of the wings of the Muslim Brotherhood in Palestine” in its original charter.

Just the News revealed that momentum had been building inside the Trump administration to pursue this designation even before the president made the public announcement.

An unsettling study released by the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy last week suggested that the Muslim Brotherhood is halfway through its strategy to “transform Western society from within.”

“We are now 50 years into the Brotherhood’s 100‑year plan to entrench themselves into key institutions in the United States and other Western societies to undermine and destroy our democracy,” Dr. Charles Asher Small, ISGAP director, said.

“This is not simply a political movement but a transnational ideological project that adapts itself to Western systems while working to undermine them.”

Although various factions exist, the organization has largely promoted strict Sharia law and the establishment of a caliphate.

A caliphate operates under rigid Islamic legal codes, often severely limiting women’s rights and enforcing harsh penalties for perceived infractions on personal liberties.

“Globally, the Brotherhood is a gateway to terrorism, infusing members with the religious doctrines and hatred that justify violence,” a sharp October report from the conservative‑leaning Foundation for Defense of Democracies read.

“The most determined of these members then form splinter groups or migrate individually to terrorist organizations.”

The Trump administration’s first term deliberated the notion of labeling the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist entity.

At that time, the Brotherhood countered the claim, describing its work as advocacy for “our moderate and peaceful thinking in what we believe to be right, for honest and constructive cooperation, to serve the communities in which we live and humanity as a whole.”

The group’s maxim states that, “Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur’an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”

Multiple Middle Eastern states—including Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain—have labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, while Egypt and Jordan have outlawed it.

Republican lawmakers had been urging the Trump administration to adopt a terrorist designation for months as they had previously requested.

In August, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that designating the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization was “in the works.”

“Obviously, there are distinct branches of the Muslim Brotherhood, so you’d have to designate each one of them,” Rubio explained, noting that the State Department was undertaking a thorough preparatory process to finalize the designation.